Women on Walls

Women on Walls

NCCWN Chairwoman, Ann Fitzgerald, attended the launch of Women on Walls in the Royal College of
Surgeons, Dublin on March 5th 2019. This
campaign aims to highlight women leaders through a series of
commissioned portraits and create a lasting cultural legacy in Ireland. Ann Fitzgerald, NCCWN Waterford Women’s Centre
history group, was instrumental in highlighting the work and life of Dr Mary Strangman and in having a Civic Trust Blue Plaque
erected to her in 2018. Dr Strangman
became Waterford’s first female councillor in 1912. She was also the first female doctor in
Waterford and worked tirelessly to combat tuberculosis, a principal killer
disease in Ireland at that time. Dr
Strangman became the second woman to earn the fellowship of RCSI in 1902 and
served on the executive committee of the Irishwomen’s Suffrage Federation from
1911 to 1917.
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